Waistline tape



Jan. 22, 1957 E. F. NORMAN WAISTLINE; TAPE Filed March 5, 1953 I INVENTOR Bllz'zfi 0201222122;

United States Patent 2,778,114 WAISTLINE TAPE Edith F. Norman, Fox Lake, Ill. Application March 5, 1953, Serial No. 340,605 3 Claims. (CI. 33-13) This invention relates to a waistline tape, ticularly useful for home dressmaking. In making, the waistline between a blouse and a skirt must home-made normal waist line. The using herself as a model.

difliculty stems from a womans She either joins by basting the partly finished blouse and skirt as cut from the commercial pattern (waist lengths of which, i. e., from nape of neck to waist proper in back and from thorax to waist in front, never correspond with all figures of persons purchasing and employing these patterns), and after basting, slips the unfinished garment over her body for viewing and adjustment; or, she attempts by donning blouse to attach the skirt by pins. In so doing, she moves her arms and shoulders so as to draw the garment improperly around the waistline at the time she is doing the pinning. The result is a waistline which is not straight and which frequently does not rest properly above the hips.

Applicants object is to provide a simple way of locating a waistline quickly and accurately when the woman is using herself as the model. Applicant attains the desired result by means of a marking tape. One tape of a duoflered for inclusion in dress patterns.

The two embodiments of the invention are shown in the drawings wherein:

Fig. l is a plan view of applicants preferred tape; Fig. 2 is a cross section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1 but rotated 90 degrees;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of applicants tissue paper tape to be'included with patterns;

Fig. 4 illustrates how the locking tongue of Fig. 3 engages one of the openings in the tape;

Fig. 5 is a sketch of a woman showing how she stands when marking the tape around the Wastline; and,

Fig. 6 is a plan view of applicants tape with a chalked cord laced therethrough.

Continuing to refer to the drawings, the numeral 10 may be made of a sensitive adhesive tape. a row of tear drop openings 16, 18. The end 20 of each of these openings is adapted to receive the tongue 12.

In using this tape, the woman slips on the blouse 22, referring to Fig. 5, and pins or buttons it across the front 'fiat flexible sheet material,

2,778,] 14 Patented Jan. 22, 1957 so that it hangs around and repeats the operation on the left side. Thereafter, she removes the garment, bastes the next section, i. e., the skirt, into place, and trims, if necessary, any excess material.

The operation is the same for the princess type of garment, that 1s, one in which the blouse and skirt are in ment is being made, and then the darts can be pinched In the long torso or middy type dress, the tape is put around the desired hip line, and the same operation is performed.

Returning to Figs. 1 and 2, the numeral 24 identifies a scoring which is on the outer surface of the tape, see Fig. 2. This scoring tends to keep the chalk centered on the tape as the woman moves the chalk around her waistline.

An alternative Way of marking the waistline is to chalk a cord and thread it through the openings 16, 18, before the tape has This is illustrated in Fig. 6. The tape may be marketed without a hook on one end but laced with a cord slightly longer than the tape. Any compound harmless to cloth may be placed on the cord, but it must wipe off by friction. When the tape is in the desired position, the cord is drawn out, leaving a row of short chalk lines on the material.

Fig. 3 shows a tape 25 made out of a stout sheer paper and is intended to be incorporated in dress patterns. Instead of the metallic reinforced hook or tongue of the more permanent embodiment of the invention shown in Fig. 1, the tape has a -shaped tongue 26 and triangular slots 28. When this T-shaped tongue 26 is seated in one of the slots 28, it has the configuration indicated by the solid lines 30 in Fig. 4.

Having thus length and extending along its longitudinal median line, a plurality of spaced openings through said tape and intercepting said scoring, and a locking element at one end of the tape and engageable with one of said openings.

2. A waistline tape comprising an elongated tape of scoring, said tongue constituting a locking element at one end of the tape and engageable with one of said openings.

3. A waistline tape comprising an elongated tape of deep scoring in said sheet material parallel to its length and extending along its longitudinal median line and forming a longitudinal valley therein for centering the movement of a marking means 800,696 Wagner Oct. 3, 1905 such. as chalk or interlacing chalk string, and a plurality 9 3,770 Curran Dec. 21, 1907 of spaced openings through said tape and intercepting 890,969 Dufault June 16, 1908 said scoring. 1,282,772. Dinhofer (1) Oct. 29, 1918 j I 5 1,404,601 Gordon Ian. 24, 1922 References Cited in the file ofthis patent llgini .f Agr. 2(5),

, moer 'an. UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,374,654 Cooke May 1, 1945 458,564 Engel Sept. 1, 1891 2,614,769 Nicholson Oct. 21, 1952 748,174 Dunlea Dec. 29, 1903 10 

